Auction 321: Modern Art | Day Sale | 8 December 2023
Christian Rohlfs

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Auction 321
Lot 572
Christian Rohlfs
1849 Niendorf – Hagen 1938
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Coloured woodcut on laid paper with watermark (1913). Ca. 36 x 26.5 cm (sheet size ca. 58 x 48 cm). This is the only known hand coloured example (a copy from an edition of unknown number). Monogrammed lower right in the depiction. Unique piece.

Result: € 3,556*

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Details

Vogt 74; Utermann 98. Provenance: the artist’s estate, with stamp on the reverse (Lugt 2143a) and hand-written confirmation by the artist’s widow Helene Rohlfs (“Frau Christian Rohlfs”); private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia; Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg 8.12.2001, lot 1002; private collection, Hessen.

Description

Rohlfs chose a dark green printing ink for this unique example of the woodcut and then overworked the sheet almost entirely with watercolour. The faces and hands are coloured in ochre, the shoes in black and the robes of the individual figures in various shades of blue, brownish-red and a slightly darker ochre.

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Modern Art

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